Configure a vCenter Server User for View and View Composer

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To configure a user account that allows View to perform operations in vCenter Server, you must assign a vCenter Server role with appropriate privileges to that user.

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The list of privileges that you must add to the vCenter Server role varies, depending on whether you use View with or without View Composer. The View Composer service performs operations in vCenter Server that require privileges in addition to the base privileges.

If you install View Composer on the same machine as vCenter Server, you must make the vCenter Server user a local system administrator on the vCenter Server machine. This requirement allows View to authenticate to the View Composer service.

If you install View Composer on a different machine than vCenter Server, you do not have to make the vCenter Server user a local administrator on the vCenter Server machine. However, you do have to create a standalone View Composer Server user account that must be a local administrator on the View Composer machine.